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What do you call these and where do you come from?

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MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:08

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/School_plimsolls.jpg

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lanbro · 03/02/2014 15:20

Sand shoes, north east England

ButICantaloupe · 03/02/2014 15:20

Plimsolls - London

VelvetGecko · 03/02/2014 15:21

Rubbers, Edinburgh. Occasionally gym shoes.

justmuddlingalong · 03/02/2014 15:22

Gutties pronounced guh-ies. Glasgow.

KatoPotato · 03/02/2014 15:22

Nashies - Glasgow

AtYourCervix · 03/02/2014 15:22

Daps. S. Wales and S.W England

IamInvisible · 03/02/2014 15:23

Daps - Gloucestershire.

cosikitty · 03/02/2014 15:23

Pumps- west yorks

3storeylovesong · 03/02/2014 15:23

Pumps - manchester

Aelfrith · 03/02/2014 15:24

Daps...west country girl! My DCs call them plimsolls though. Their teacher int from roun these parrts....

RonaldMcDonald · 03/02/2014 15:24

Guddies

Meow75 · 03/02/2014 15:25

North West - we called them pumps at my primary school, but DH who went to a PS about 3/4 mile away called them plimsolls or daps.

I only ever heard him call them daps after he joined the RAF though - I think that's what they got called at Basic Training in 1994/95

Foxred10 · 03/02/2014 15:25

Plimsolls, NE Scotland

Fadqueen · 03/02/2014 15:25

Daps -Swansea

I didn't know that TheArmadillo! Love learning new things too....

Hanginggardenofboobylon · 03/02/2014 15:26

Pumps - Lancashire

muppetthecow · 03/02/2014 15:26

Plimsolls - born York, raised in Dorset. Not sure whether my parents called them plimsolls before we moved though - I can't remember!

SanityClause · 03/02/2014 15:26

These were unknown, growing up in Australia.

I now live in Greater London and know them as plimsolls.

oscarwilde · 03/02/2014 15:26

Horrible. Ireland.

BrunoBrookesDinedAlone · 03/02/2014 15:26

Daps. South Wales.

Marrow · 03/02/2014 15:27

Pumps - NW

ForgettableTampon · 03/02/2014 15:27

Daps

west country

DaleyBump · 03/02/2014 15:27

San shoes. Also Scotland.

MothratheMighty · 03/02/2014 15:27

'Gutties pronounced guh-ies. Glasgow.'

That probably stems from gutta percha, which is a variety of tree that produces latex rubber. So a gutty is a rubber-soled gym shoe.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 03/02/2014 15:28

Plimsolls - London and Ireland

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MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:28

Sorry Armadillo. Just looked it up and according to wiki the Dunlop origin probably isn't true.

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